listen: Not listening to file changes, Ubuntu 14.04

Not sure exactly what is going on, but I am pretty sure my problems started after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 (from 13.10).

Short description: Guard does not react to any file changes at all.

Longer description: My exact setup used to work on ubuntu 13.10. After upgrading no file changes are registered with Guard and Listen.

I have tried the following:

When running guard with bundle exec guard start --force-polling it listens as expected (but with polling of course).

I have tried to run with --debug but nothing odd shows up.

I am using Ruby 2.1.1 installed with rbenv.

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 10 years ago
  • Comments: 21 (10 by maintainers)

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I got a simple solution,

Run this cammand in your Ubuntu 14.04 terminal

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers

That is all.